Situation Normal: I Am In Transition
My friend Chris Austin shared an perfect illustration at our most recent Worship@8500 gathering in the high country of Colorado. It was wrapped around the understanding we have of seasons: winter, spring, summer and fall, and how these seasons reflect the Lord’s sense of cyclical life in all things. His proposed that we have failed to recognize that in our lives this same cycle of change is always at work in us because we constantly act surprised when most of our gatherings contain people who confess, “I feel like we are in transition right now…” Chris concluded that since all of life (aka The Lion King) moves in cycles where there is birth, life, death, repeat that it is foolish to keep resisting the pain and joys that accompany these cycles, or to keep pretending like our life in Christ will somehow help us live without transition and change. I believe these cycles really do represent the regular transitions that we are always making in life and that we were meant to make. We do not live a life that simply excels from one revelation to the next without repentance, or one strength to the next without pain, or one place to the next without loss. Transition is situation normal for human beings. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘responsibility’
Time to Move
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
The Spiritually Far-Sighted
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009Are You Spiritually Far-Sighted?
It was back in 2005 that I started tapping on my computer screen and yelling at it because it was blurring in and out of focus. I would lean in and sometimes it would appear clearer, I would restart my computer and sometimes it would look better. “Blink^##(#& monitors,” I would say in hopes that harsh words would make them wise up. Really, how could two new monitors have gone bad so quickly. So, obviously, I sold them on eBay and went out and bought some nicer ones, bigger ones, and justified it easily when my wife questioned the expense. When I got them home I couldn’t believe it. Same problem! What was going on? My wife comes in during one of my fits and makes the statement filled with all wisdom and insight,
“You need to get your eyes checked.” (more…)
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Being A Reconciler
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Paul had a Wounded Heart
I would like you to read the first seven chapters of 2 Corinthians with this in mind: Paul loved this group of believers in Corinth but something had come between them–and it had broken his heart.
I have always loved this section of Scripture, but I don’t think I saw it as a personal letter until recently. I think many of us read the letters in the New Testament as though the authors put chapters and numbers in them from the beginning like they were teaching manuals. I know I can’t help but seeing them that way sometimes. 2 Corinthians is a book in the Bible, but I submit that it is also a very personal letter from Paul to the Church in Corinth. (more…)
Round table from Peru, Part 3
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Round Table discussion with Doug, Mitch, and Ben, and tiny bit of Robin on building the Church instead of just planting one, understanding the role of the apostle not just the Greek definition, and learning how to make transitions so we can mature in the Lord. This is the third of a three part series.
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Round table from Peru, Part 2
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Round Table discussion with Doug, Mitch, and Ben, and tiny bit of Robin on building the Church instead of just planting one, understanding the role of the apostle not just the Greek definition, and learning how to make transitions so we can mature in the Lord. This is the second of a three part series.
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Round table from Peru, Part 1
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Round Table discussion with Doug, Mitch, and Ben, and tiny bit of Robin on building the Church instead of just planting one, understanding the role of the apostle not just the Greek definition, and learning how to make transitions so we can mature in the Lord. This is the first of a three part series.
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